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While he became a billionaire thanks to Pixar, he wasn't known as an activist like Bill Gates who pledged to donate the bulk of his fortune to causes he believed in.

Three years ago, Microsoft founder Bill Gates predicted that technology and the Internet would bring the cost of a college education down to $2,000 by 2015.

For years, Bill Gates was the richest man in the world, buoyed by his stake in Microsoft Corporation .

Microblogging site Tumblr is now part of the Yahoo Group. Its founder, David Karp, has sold the social media site for over US$1 billion, reports say.

Forbes Magazine has released its 2013 list of the world's richest billionaires , and for the fourth year in a row, Mexican telecom magnate Carlos Slim topped the list with a net worth of $73 billion - which is $4 billion more than last year.

An investigation by Sen. Carl Levin and a grilling of Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations were ostensibly about Apple's low tax bill.

A few weeks back I upgraded my laptop to Windows 8. One of the first things that I did was install the Hyper-V Manager and I pinned it to my taskbar.

First, let's enact a one-time bonus payment to those who have served our country since Sept.

The list comprises of the First lady and President of US, Music couple, Jay Z and Beyonce and the richest person in the world and his wife, Belinda and Bill Gates.

Being a country's topmost political leader does not necessarily equate to being most powerful.

It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college.

Never underestimate the power and glory of the American ego. Granted, it can show its bizarre sides-for example, in the antics and hairdo of Donald Trump.

Microsoft Corporation , the American software giant founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in 1975, is arguably the most overlooked tech stock in the market due to the perceived maturity of its Windows and Office product lines.

Bill Gates is once again the world's richest person, thanks in large part to a slide over the past few days in the price of Mexican stocks.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates speaks with German Development Minister Dirk Niebel to the media after talks at the Development Ministry on January 29, 2013 in Berlin, Germany.

At Tuesday's PATH breakfast at the Bell Harbor International Conference center in Seattle, Melinda Gates, left, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was introduced by Phyllis Campbell, Pacific Northwest chairman of JPMorgan Chase.

At the Washington Post's Wonkblog, Ezra Klein has put up two posts about healthcare costs that are well worth reading.

In conjunction with the Windows Vista's launch, the British Library launched an online program called "Turning the Pages 2.0" that lets people browse through virtual versions of two Leonardo da Vinci notebooks using some of the underlying graphics technology in the new operating system.

Derek Rodriguez broke into a happy dance last month in a corridor at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport as he and other members of the Arlington High School Band waited to board a flight to New York.

To the casual observer, Tumblr founder David Karp's status as a high school dropout may be the most eye-catching detail of the $1.1 billion Yahoo-Tumblr deal , which is giving the 26-year-old an estimated windfall of $250 million.